Picturesque California

and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico

(1888-1890)

Edited by
John Muir

Note: Picturesque California was an 1888 "coffee table" book edited by John Muir, published by the J. Dewing Publishing company, featuring over 600 etchings, photogravures, and wood etchings, 700 additional illustrations in the text, and 120 tinted plates. The original work was sold by subscription and was distributed monthly in thirty parts. Muir wrote six of the articles, which we provide here.

Bibliographic Information

Originally published as thirty parts, then ten, and finally as two volumes (J. Dewing and Company: 1888-1890).
Reprinted as West of the Rocky Mountains
(Philadelphia: Running Press, 1976).
Chapters 10, 24, and 25
were reprinted in
Chapters 3-5, 17-20, and 21-23, respectively, of
Steep Trails